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The Ghosts of George W. Bush and Richard (The Dick) Cheney.
On January 20, 2009, you probably thought the Bush/Cheney administration had come to an ignominious end. You were wrong. The problems generated by these goons still haunt us. The war in Iraq may be winding down (although we can’t be certain), but the war in Afghanistan is growing. The oil companies and Big Pharma are still holding a gun to our collective heads. The Wall Street tycoons are still gambling with our money and paying themselves six to eight figure bonuses. The corporations and utilities are still spewing poisons into our atmosphere. The gun lobby is still rewriting laws to permit more weaponry. Health insurance companies are still hauling in record profits while denying care to millions.
Don’t blame Obama. These issues all began or at least ballooned under Bush/Cheney and it will take years to change them.
But these issues are the least of our problems. Seriously! The most problematic legacy of the Bush years is a Supreme Court dominated by conservatives who liberally support big corporations while denying rights for individuals.
And now that the Roberts Court has over-reached by over-turning 103 years of established law to allow unlimited funding for candidates by large corporations, what Senators or Congressional representatives will dare to vote against corporate interests when those corporations can spend millions, maybe billions, to defeat them in the next election? What Gubernatorial or Legislative candidate will be able to raise enough money to compete with a corporate-sponsored foe? The majority opinion of the Court says it ruled to erase limits on free speech. The effect will be very much the opposite.